Outsourcing options

I generally check the services section at digitalpoint. Those guys sell themselves for way too cheap. I can't think of any other places to find cheaper submissions.

Cheers

I want to make sure they're done and done proeprly too so rather than freelance i'd rather pay a company that can show me records and results.

Hi Matt,

Just sent you a PM

Matt,

I recommend you use elance. This is where I'm doing almost all of my outsourcing these days. It's just elance.com if you want a clean link. Otherwise I've been documenting some of my outsourcing activities at Doing Business Online and the links to elance on that page is an affiliate link.

Article submission is one area that I'll be outsourcing also, but first I have to find a great article writer. I have an affiliate program that I'm promoting and I want to start targetting the long tail. My strategy is going to be this:

1) analyze sales page via google keyword tool
2) pick long tail keywords with decent volume
3) do basic SEO competition check in market samurai
4) hire an article writer to write articles
5) manually submit these to EZA myself
6) tweak the article and change resource box to point to my EZA articles
7) mass submit to other article sites

It's #4 and #7 that will be outsourced. Doing #7 should give my EZE articles enough link juice to pop up high on organic search results.

FYI - manual article submission should cost you about $3 per hour, but I would recommend you decide INSTEAD how many articles the person should be able to submit per hour and charge a per-article fee. Don't be too cheap. I suggest you estimate something like 5 minutes per submission, so 50 submissions will take 4 hours. You might be able to get someone to do this for $15, but I'd just pay $20 to get higher quality workers.

Also - on elance.com make sure you post a job that is big enough to get over the $50 minimum. So I suggest you say you are looking for 200 article submissions, which the bidder will probly calculate they an do in 15 hours, and you'll find guys who bid $50 for the job.

Then as you setup your milestones, just break it into chunks such as "50 articles for the week of July 6th". And make the milestone worth $20 (approx) ...

Hope that helps!

I'm now using submitinme for manual press release submission. They also offer article submission, video distribution...etc. I'm not sure for their article submission as I've tried that. But for press release submission, I received a report with url and screenshots.

I would give the person you hire a spreadsheet or text document with the details you want used for all of the accounts. Include the name, email address, password, and all that stuff that you'd like to have in your account. Then you should probably pay the person something extra for the initial setup. This can all be negotiated with the person you hire.

I like elance because you can post the job, get multiple bidders, and engage in message board dialog with them (privately) to see i they seem to understand what you are after.

Thanks for the recommendation on article writer from WF.

I've used getafreelancer.com for a variety of tasks with good results.